We observed areas of heavy overpaint, abrasion, and dirt on the frame. All four large corner ornaments have heavy damage with clumsy repairs. The inner corners of the frame are cracked and separating up to the ornamentation.

We regularly receive paintings and their frames in varying degrees of damage. Here we had a collection of frames come in that needed repaired. All frames required cleaning, consolidation, fills, castings, and inpainting which you can see in the photos below.

This privately owned 18th c. Louis XVI mirror came to us for cleaning, consolidation and repair of ornamentation, structural strengthening, and overpaint removal.

The wooden substrates of both frames had shrunk slightly with age and created voids between the backside of the gesso coating and the wood. When these fragile areas were hit or touched, the gesso had crumbled and flaked away. The surfaces of the frames were also noticeably dirty. In addition to the surface damage, there were more than a dozen parts of carved ornamentation missing from each frame. Several of the wooden sections were cracked or had fallen off through the years and were now missing. Much of the original animal skin glue holding the joints together had failed with age. The top central carved element on the Diana painting was very fragile, and badly damaged.